Fire in the Sky
January 25, 2010 at 4:24 pm Leave a comment
We woke up to devastating news this morning of an Ethiopian airliner that crashed minutes after taking off from Beirut’s international airport. The plane, carrying 90 people, caught fire and crashed into the sea soon after.
My heart goes out to the families who’ve lost their loved ones. People have been passing along forwards with lists of the passengers – most Lebanese and under the age of 50. Its such a painful incident. The country is shaken up and you feel a whispered mourning for what’s happened.
Regardless of how much we’ve experienced specifically in the Middle East, each incident opens a new wound and the sting gets sharper each time. Officials are saying that so far no sabotage was involved – the cause being bad weather conditions.
It would be very worrying to think otherwise.
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Keep posted on the story as it develops on iLoubnan’s website
Entry filed under: Floating. Tags: 2010, airplane crash, beirut, Ethiopian, explosion, French Ambassador, Lebanon, loss, mourning, thunder.
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